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Births ,Marriages And Deaths.

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DEATHS . MOTT , CAPT . —On the lSlhinst ., at "The Fearns , " Litherland , near Liverpool . CARPENTEII . —On the 21 ft inst ., at 5 p . m ., Bro . William Carpenter , P . M ., P . Z ., & c , after along and painful illness . MINNIS—On the 17 th ult ., Bro . George Minnis , of the Old Concord Lodge .

H . MISON . —April 16 , at 109 , HusMsson-street , Liverpool , Mary Madelenc , infant daughter of 13 ro . Edward Ramson , S ., Afariners' Lodge , No . 240 . BARIIETT . —On the 17 th inst ., at 7 , Augusta-place , Lower-road , Rotherhithe , Bro . John Woodward Barrett , j 8 ° , P . M ., P . Prov . G-S . B . Middlesex , in the 64 th year of his age . —[ Obituary notices will be given next week ] .

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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

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The Freemason , _ SATURDAY , APRIL 2 j , 1874 .

The Restoration Of Worcester Cathedral.

THE RESTORATION OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL .

We have received the account of the elaborate services and successful gathering by which the the opening and restoration of Worcester Cathedral on April Sth , were duly celebrated and

completed . To use ^ the words of a local paper , " after a period of nearly twenty years' restoration , nnd an expenditure of some £ So , ooo ., Worcester

Cathedral was at last reopened with great ceremonial , and much festivity and rejoicing , which have not been surpassed in " the Faithful City , " within the recollection of " the oldest

inhabitant . All classes and all authorities seem to have combined in this great day of rejoicing , when the " Domus Dei , " " the holy and beautiful house "

of thoir fathers , was restored , after years of apathy and neglect to all of becoming reverence , and chaste ornamentation for the honour and worship of Almighty God .

Our Masonic brethren in Worcestershire seem to have taken a laudable interest in this good and needed work , and to have contributed , alike by their generous presence , ** nd fraternal offering

to promote the success ofthe day ' s festivity , and to show their interest in the result of long labours so munificently supported and so successfully achieved .

And it is very interesting for our speculative Order to day to know and to believe , that , our Free and Accepted Brotherhood is the lineal descendant of the operative lodges and the

Craft Guilds , which in days gone by raised those mighty structures , which we admire to day , which adom our own and many other lands , and which raise in us all , we believe , emotions of piety and sympathy and of admiration .

The Restoration Of Worcester Cathedral.

No one we think , can traverse the noble aisles of our great Minsters and Cathedrals , and look at their noble proportions or majestic pillars , or cunning tracery , or gaze * up at the fretted roof , or

admire the coloured shadows of the storied glass , without feeling how great , how divine an art is architecture , alike in its softening , its refining , and its elevating influences on mankind .

The great Erasmus is credited of old with this fine passage in respect of some such great building of religious worship . Tanta magistate sesie erigit in coelum ut etiam

intuentibus religionem incutiat , And few of us , we believe there are , who have ever loitered amid the sacred walls of these great evidences ofthe piety and munificence of our

fathers , but must have felt the like sentiments of reverential regard , and must rejoice to think that we have still architects and Masons competent to mend and restore what the devouring hand of

tune has touched and marred , and to give back to us , and for the use of future generations , many a glorious and holy house of God in our land .

But the question has often arisen , who raised these great and superb edifices , and how is it that we see so much unity of design and similarity of treatment ?

Ihe answer , in our humble opinion , to both these questions , is that these buildings were always erected and designed by the guilds or lodges of the operative Masons .

All these cathedral bodies had a lod ge attached to them of "Freemasons" or "Latomi , " like Christchurch Canterbury , with its Master ,

Wardens , and members , and the more famous Master Masons went from county to county , often with their lodge , after their local and immediate work

was over . We find in the old fabric rolls , mention of the same Master , working now North of the Trent .

and now South of the Trent , now down the Eastern Counties , now in the Western portion of our land .

"When a great work was to be undertaken , ( there were no contracts in those days as we understand contracts ) , a Master Mason was appointed

who brought as many Masons as were required , who all received so much per day , under the supervision of a "Magister operis , " until the work was concluded .

Wc find , indeed , contracts to build Catterick Church , and Fotheringay Chapel , and others no doubt may be adduced where the Master Mason undertakes to complete the whole work at certain prices , or at a given sum .

But as a general rule , the work was carried on by day work , under the architectural direction of the Master Mason , and under the personal supervision of a Controller or Surveyor of the

work , generally a member of the Cathedral body ! It is much to be desired that , all the fabric rolls of our Cathedrals were accessible to students or carefully edited as in the case

of York , as we should find in them , many items of the deepest interest , still , to us as Freemasons . Let us hope that a better day is dawning , on

the study of Masonic Archaeology , and let us rejoice to think and to remember that though our operative character has departed from us never to return , our speculative brotherhood is an